Invented and lead development of groupware (SRI Augment system), word processing (display editing), outlining, hyperlinks, hyper-documents, graphical user interfaces, integrated text and graphics, windowing user interfaces (non-overlapping, tiled), two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces, the computer mouse, chording keyboards, and was director of Node 1 of the Internet (Node 0 was MIT). He is also a kind, gentle, soft spoken soul.
His presentation at 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of pioneering work his group did at SRI. Later called "The Mother of All Demos" by Andy van Dam, this historic show paved the way for modern human-computer www.cs.brown.edu/stc/resea/telecollaboration/engelbart.html
Douglas Engelbart's early ideas about computing, like those of other valley pioneers, were way out there; 30 years later, the rest of us are catching on. Warm, sympathetic reasonably long piece; good pictures. www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/special/engelbart
Engelbart's Commentary from BYTE Magazine, Vol. 20(9):330, Sept. 1995. 'Digital technology could help make this a better world. But we've also got to change our way of thinking.' www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/engelbart.html
By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on SRI, Engelbart, oN Line System (NLS, Augment), augmentation. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews. www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/9.html
Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize. web.mit.edu/invent/iow/engelbart.html
Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture. www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/53.html
Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today. www.learnativity.com/engelbart.html
Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s. sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite
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